Marketing schemes...

Even though the beef was about as real as B.Spears weave it was smart and it worked. We all know that if their albums came out on different days there would not have been such record breaking sales. Both did really well but 'Ye owned Smitty as much predicted.

"Early reports have Kanye West beating 50 in their much-hyped battle of album sales: West's "Graduation" is on pace to sell about 575,000 to 700,000 its first week out, while 50 Cent's "Curtis" is on track to do 550,000, according to Billboard magazine.

As of day one, Kanye had sold 437,000 copies to 50's 310,000, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Both albums came out Tuesday, and a confident 50 Cent famously announced that he would retire if West outsold him in first-week sales. "

I didn't cop either one but I do plan on downloading both!!

~BabyD

Source